Rumors & Rumblings: The Last Rides of Klaas Vantornout and Rob Peeters at 2018 Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle

The 2017/18 season closes on Sunday at Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle in Belgium. The race not only marks the end of the season, it also serves as a farewell tour for two familiar faces in Klaas Vantornout and Rob Peeters. As the sport has become a game of the young, Vantornout and Peeters have continued to race into their 30s, with Vantornout turning 36 and Peeters 33 this year.

Vantornout and Peeters will both depart from the sport as Worlds podium finishers. Peeters finished second behind Neils Albert in 2012 at Koksijde. He has also been enjoying the tail end of his career with some international racing. Peeters won in China in 2016 and kicked off his last season with an early U.S. start at Rochester, where he finished second and third in the close races won by Stephen Hyde and Kerry Werner.

Vantornout’s last season has been an up and down affair. He won an EKZ series race earlier in the season and had a few podium near-misses in major-series races. He also suffered a hand injury in a crash at Namur during the holeshot, but returned to race the next week at Zolder.

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